Wind leads at 18.1 GW but coal and gas fill the night gap, with 3.5 GW net imports needed.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 6%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 14%
Hard coal 10%
Brown coal 19%
57%
Renewable share
18.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
41.3 GW
Total generation
-3.5 GW
Net import
112.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
295
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 15.8 GW dominates the right half of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice towers receding into deep perspective across a dark rolling plain; wind offshore 2.3 GW appears as a cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faintly glinting sea; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes lit from below by amber sodium lights; natural gas 6.0 GW fills the centre-left as a compact CCGT plant with twin tall exhaust stacks venting thin vapour, illuminated by industrial floodlights; hard coal 4.0 GW appears centre as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular boiler house and a chimney; biomass 4.2 GW is a mid-ground facility with a domed digester tank and low exhaust, warmly lit; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam structure with spillway barely visible in the far centre background. The sky is completely black, heavy with 100% cloud cover — no moon, no stars, no twilight glow whatsoever — a deep oppressive ink-dark canopy pressing down on the scene, conveying the high electricity price. Spring vegetation is fresh but invisible in the darkness except where sodium streetlights cast orange pools on young grass and budding trees. Temperature near 10 °C suggested by faint mist clinging to low ground. Low wind speed at ground level shown by gently turning turbine blades. The entire image is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blackness and artificial amber-orange industrial illumination, atmospheric depth achieved through layered fog and receding light sources. Meticulous engineering accuracy on turbine nacelles, cooling tower geometries, CCGT stacks, and coal plant infrastructure. No text, no labels.